Surgeon who did first US heart transplant dies
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
DETROIT (AP) -- Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz....
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